The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
ARMED TRAMPS.
Battle With East St. Louis Police
One Tramp Shot in the
Spine.
A Dragging Lotbario ShOt-Sipe Gets
Il Years Imprisonment-Three
Negroes Lynched.
An Insane Father Murders His Child and
Then Suicides Another Bank De-
falcation.

ST. LOUIS, May 2.-For some time past
the city of East St. Louis has been infested
with lot Of thieves and idle, worthless
fellows, who spent most of their time ped
ding small articles, which the police were
satisfied were stolen The tramps had a
camp in the eastern outskirts OF the city,
and yesterday Chief of Police Walsh Or
dered it to be broken up and the tramps
driven out Of town. Lieutenant Irwin
with fifteen officers went to the camp in
the afternoon and ordered the tramps to
disperse and leave the city. They paid
no attention to the orders, and the po-
lice then advanced to arrest them, firing
two or three shots in the air to intimidate
them. To the great surprise of the police
the tramps returned the fire, but luckily
without effect. The police then charged
the camp in force, firing as they advanced,
and the tramps fed in all directions, some
of them plunging into slough near by and
swimming for their lives. All of them
were finally got outside OF the city limits
and joined another camp where the con-
solidated forces defed the police. The
latter having no authority outside the city
made no further efforts to arrest the fugI-
tives but left strong guard on the spot to
ing over the field again the police found one
Of the tramps groaning on the ground with
a pistol bal in his spIne He was taken to
the county hospital and will probably die.
Tue sheriff of the county has been notified
of the congregation of armed tramps in his
territory, but it is not known what action
he will take.
sEDUCER SHOT.
LEoSARDTOwN, Nd, May 2.-Levi J.
Wise shot Robert Owens last Thursday,
;cf!icting five wounds, two in the head and
three in the breast and abdomen. For
some time past there had beer rumors that
Owens was improperly intimate with Wise's
wife. Thursday Wise came TO the Indiana
bridge store aud meeting Owens there asked
him il the rumOrs were true. The reply was:
"Yes, - -, and l'll do it again when
ever L get a show" Wise then drew his
pistol and used it with the results already
Stated. The woman in the case was born
and reared in Baltimore. Her husband is
merchant and mill owner at California,
thriving little town in the Eighth district
OF st. Mary's County. The sentiment of the
community is favorable to Wise.
AN INSANE FATHER.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2.-This morning,
when Jennie Oswald. eleven years Of age,
went from her bedroom into The dining
room of her home in Shaler township, near
marlborough, just beyond the limits of the
city. she found her father, Charles Oswald,
sitting in a chair with ms throat cut. and
her younger sister, Bessie, aged nine, lying
on the floor dead. 1t was a case
of suicide on the part of Oswald, and all
the signs indicate that he murdered his
daughter before cutting his own throat
The child had evidently been smothered to
death, as piece of cloth was found stuffed
in her mouth. 1t is supposed that con-
stant br0oiing over his domestic and
financial troubles had turned bis brain.
Oswald was a blacksmith, forty-five years
Of age.
sIPE SENTENCED.
Usage MISSION, Kan, May 2.-Saturday
Judge Stilwell sentenced Morgan K. Sipe,
convicted few days ago of seducing Ostia
Kinney, u girl under eighteen, while con-
fided to his care, to twenty-one years in
the penltentiary. Sipe was convicted two
years ago of the same offensc. The father
of his present victim was on the jury and
induced the jury 10 recommend Sipe TO the
mercy of the court, and in this way got him
off with a short Jail sentence. Alter his
release Kinney took Sipe to his house and
and in return he seduced his beneractors
sixteen-yearOld daughter.
THREE NEGROES LYNCHED.
PROCTOR. w. Va, May 2.-The bodies of
three negroes, brothers, named Sylvester,
were found hanging to tree On the road
side six miles east of here yesterday. Each
bore a placard on which was written:
'Nigger thievery must be broken up"
The farmers in the neighborhood have suf-
fered depredations at the hands of un-
known persons, aud it seems that they
finally settled on the Sylvesters as the
guilty ones, as they lived comparatively
vet scarcely ever dId any work. |
No arrests have been made.
HEAVY DEFALCATIoN.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May flames n. |
Taggart, who for several years has been |
paying teller of the Union Trust Company, |
at Gil and 613 Chestnut street, has alb |
and an examination OF the books |
of the company shows deficit of something |
less than S100,00O Exactly what the de- |
is has not yet been ascertained.